Blighted by ague.

A stunted, forward-bent, asthmatic girl, 17 years of age, was brought over from the United States of America and placed under my professional care in the month of April 1886.

The unfortunate child had had ague on and off ever since she was eleven months old, and in addition to that she had had pneumonia three times, as well as measles, whooping-cough, chicken-pox, and German measles. Her mother is under me for asthma, and two of her cousins for acne and comedones, and her mother's mother died of phthisis.

Patient's skin was very dry, she perspired but very little, made water very frequently, had moderately bad leucorrhoea, and suffered much from dysmenorrhoea. Had also a good deal of anginal pain down the sternum ; spleen very large ; apex of right lung dull on percussion.

She remained under my care nearly three years, and then returned home practically well.

The remedies that cured the spleen were Oleum succini non rectificatum 0, which she took in five-drop doses twice a day for three months, and Med CC., Bacill. 30, and Bellis perennis, and also Ceanothus Am. I x, and Nux vomica.

Two or three months of Luet. CC. wrought a great change in her constitution, and after three or four months under the influence of Psoricum 30, her asthma was so far well that she could lie down in bed and sleep all night like other people.

The special point in her case is the very remarkable improvement in her bodily development and carriage, quite apart from the cure of her asthma and of the chronic enlargement of her spleen. Her father, a well-known public man in was greatly pleased with tile remarkable change in his daughter.